I was moseying through RPs, and found that one RP had a section in their advertisement section called "Trashed Advertisements." It was described as a forum where ads were moved when they broke the rules. There was two sites in there... I didn't know why they were trashed, maybe for images that were too large? I couldn't tell since I was a guest. Anyway, basically these adverts are supposed to be put up to show the admins "mean business" or whatever... yet they left the URLs in the advertisement.

Judging by the views, people have been looking at those adverts more than any other one, probably because they were trashed so everyone wants to see why they were so bad.

So... I don't really understand the purpose of that. Lol. You're still letting them advertise; helping them, in fact.

Other silly things you've seen on sites like that? :D

I have seen people do that, and I never understood it! I mean, obviously the best way to "trash" an ad is to delete it. You're exactly right--putting them in a "trashed" forum doesn't hurt their advertising, and sometimes even helps.

*shakes head* People don't think.

*giggle fit*

Haha. That made my day. (: People really don't think, do they?

That's hilarious. I don't understand why a person would keep a trashed advertisement. No one's going to "learn" something by looking at them, sure, you're going to get the curious people looking at them, as you said, to "see what's wrong", but in the end... no one who needs to know what they did wrong is going to look at it. Just members and people passing through looking at your ads for a place to play at. Most actual advertisers aren't going to give it a second thought.

I also don't understand why people just edit a bad advertisement's link out, then add that "They forgot about such-and-such" at the top of the post... then leave the post up. Why? Who cares? Delete it! I hate going through links somewhere and seeing this. You just wasted my time by leaving that site's ad up for no reason. o.O

That's absolutely adorable. Someone go change that admin's diaper.

Ugh! -__- I don't understand that at all! That's like saying, "This person broke the rules, so we're going to hang them on a tree for everyone to laugh at. We aren't even considering our own stupidness."

Haha, that really is quite amusing. Similar things I don't understand when it comes to advertising forums:

- Deleting ads because the coding is incorrect.
- Editing ads when the coding is incorrect.
- Trashing advertisements without urls.

Deleting/editing advertisements with incorrect coding seems pointless to me. If the board owner/advertiser doesn't care enough about their board to preview and check they're using the right BBCode, I don't see why I should care for them. It's a whole three clicks to delete the advert, which means they can advertise again.. which means.. ah, yes.. they can get it wrong again... bottom line, it's the advertisers job to make sure the ad looks good. Not mine, and seeing as the posts aren't made by my members... it's not a reflection on me and my board.

As for trashing url-less ads, pfft. Why bother? Again, with the advertiser not caring enough to check. If I'm feeling generous, I may search out the site and post back without a 'linkback' mark.. so they come and try again (I'm really not fussed about doubles, to be honest. It gets like that when you have more than a couple hundred adverts sitting there).

The only thing that I will edit in an advert, is extra punctuation out of the topic title. Cause that appears on the index and the search list... it bugs me.

Just the one thing:

'YOU MAY ONLY POST YOUR AD ONCE!!!! WE'RE SERIOUS!!!!! YOUR AD WILL BE DELETED AND YOUR IP BLOCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

Then they don't have a master list and the advertisements in all their forums are only visable for 30 days.

>>;;

^^ Ooh, that annoys me >.<
Everyone seems to be doing the 30 day thing lately..
I don't know why, but cut off limits have always annoyed me, even on general chat forums.. I like to see all the threads there in front of me.
And surely, if that's there on advertising forums, their advert will be on the "since the beginning" forums longer than on their own? Not really a fair trade there.

And what else annoys me is when you get multiple posts from a site, when the rule is no double posting and you do indeed have a master list. All nice and alphabetically listed and in a size 2 font so it's easy to read.

I mean, I ignore double posts when advertising and the site is not on the masterlist yet, because really, that's my mistake. They have probably forgotten the site, checked the masterlist, seen they're not there and posted again. That's not their fault. And sometimes two admin post at the same time, so there's going to be accidental reposts, that's no big deal, but when you get like six posts from the same site, even though you have a masterlist, it starts to get a little annoying. >.<

And as for the actual thing this post was about? xD ((I seem to have gone a little off track.)) That is pretty pointless xD I know I would definitely go and look at them if they were in the trashed section, because I'm a rather nosey curious person, and would want to see why they got banned. So yeah, um.. I dun gerrit. Hehehe.

Pour encourager les autres.

Actually, I don't just edit the bad ad's link out, I gut the entire thing and replace it with the reason, then slap a big old [REJECTED] in the subject line. I do this for only one reason -- lack of a reciprocal ad area on the board in question -- and I've only had to do it once.